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The Sense of Sight

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At left a couple with a mirror, a couple reading from a book with magnifying and eye glasses; at right a woman looking thorugh a telescope. Surrounded by trees in landscape with houses, a tower, a bridge. Bottom margin left: "ET TERRAE, et Coeli, quid habend miracula pulchris / Haec si non oculis t anta videre queas". Center: "LA VUE / a Paris chez Daudet". Right: "Les miracles diverse de la Terre et des Cieux / Ne seroient rien poir nous s'il nous manquoit [very small] les yeux". Made in: France. Date: 1740s. Record ID: chndm_1921-22-291.

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